Thursday's Sound Off

Mr. President, why did you create a health care plan loaded with mandates, rules, regulations, fines and fees with much higher premiums and deductibles to punish the working middle class and force young workers to pay three times more for a product they don’t even need just so you could be in control and distribute the wealth? I thought this was America, the land of the free.

PUZZLED

Can someone tell me what’s going on with West End Fire Company? If I have a fire in my house is West End going to come since I live in the west end of town or do I have to wait for the fire company from Church Street to come? Where’s the politics in all this and what’s going on? Would someone please tell the Phoenixville people. We want West End and we want it back.

PHOENIX MOM

Coal power is being replaced by electricity rationing a major grid operator tells the Senate. Obama is making the U.S. a Third World economy.

There’s a borough codes rule that says if the water is turned off in your house they can come and put an orange sticker on your house that says it’s condemned. The day before your house was fine, you have a beautiful house, nothing wrong with it, you fell on hard times and your water bill can’t get paid and they turn your water off. The American dream. They can condemn it because you can’t live in it because the water’s not paid. Hope someone sues them.

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It’s quite obvious to me after seeing the carnage that was caused in western Pennsylvania by that deranged individual, we definitely need more and better knife control. Do you realize that any individual can walk into a store and buy a knife without any background check? You can even buy them through the mail or over the Internet. We must have more knife control.

TEA PARTY

I can’t believe they can’t at least lower the property tax for retirees. I wonder if the legislators saw the paper last week for 30 sheriff sales. They’re not doing anything. I know one guy who only gets $9 a month for Social Security because he worked at all these places that shut down.

WS

I would like to see the borough council of Pottstown meet with the borough council of Phoenixville. It seems that Phoenixville has a handle on the development of their town. They’re way ahead of Pottstown for sure. I believe it comes from leadership from the borough manager all the way down. I’d like to know how they’re controlling their Section 8 and how much they have. I think we could learn a lot. Take a look at how nice their town has become.

Boyertown residents, are you ready to spend $61 million in one high school renovation? That’s what it’s going to cost us. They said at the school board meeting at Junior High East that they are being very frugal with our money. Thanks for spending our tax dollars wisely.

To all the bargain hunters out there. The Liberty Thrift Store has now opened up another thrift shop on East High Street next to the Subway and everything in the store from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. is half priced of what it is marked. Please support them.

Jut an idea for property tax elimination. All citizens 18 to 65 pay a $500 education tax. If you further your education, you’re exempt until you graduate. That would raise approximately $3.7 billion, more than enough to fund the public school system. Just a little feedback.

SANATOGA HOUND DOG

Only a liberal progressive Democrat like Rep. Mark Painter would enact a law whereas an investor would lend an elderly homeowner money and then when that homeowner dies, their heirs would be left paying back that money or losing the home. It is the same as a reverse mortgage which is detrimental to elderly people. House Bill 76 total elimination of property taxes is the only way to go. When you raise the income and sales tax everyone pays including renters.

I see where they’re going to repair the sidewalks in the 400 block of Chestnut Street at no cost to the homeowners there. And I assume when we get a notice about our sidewalks, we don’t have to do anything ourselves because the borough will eventually replace them. I hope this is true.

I agree about the good steaks that Talarico has and I know they’ve been in the area for years. Everyone should try them.

We seniors do not need liens on our property. We need property tax elimination. Just increase the sales tax to 8 percent and be done with it.